How to Write a Screenplay

Listen, Read, Watch, Absorb

To write any soulful piece of writing that captures a reader or a movie viewer, one must feel it, experience it inside. Great screenwriters and novelists are like sponges who absorb everything that they see hear and experience. The process of being a good writer starts with living life and minutely perceiving all its manifestations. Read as much as you can, watch as many classic movies as you can, listen to world music and enjoy all the forms of artistic expression. All this will help you in enriching the world within you, which will eventually come in handy when you start writing. Start with writing short stories, short plays and poems. To learn to write better, one must keep on writing. Read what you wrote and keep improving. Remember that the greats were also as clueless once, the way you are now!